The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1887-05-21
MILAN EXCHANGE
SATURDAY, MAY 81, 1887.
OVER THE STATE.


T. o. Kennedy at MiIlington last
Monday. An old feud had existed
between them. Millington surren-
dered himself.
Pulaski Citizen: 1t seems that the
interstate commission was created to
protect the country from the opera
ton of the law. They are kept busy
suspending the law. 1t may occur
to the next congress to repeal it.
The Dickson County Press W. l..
Grigsby has three young pigs that
draw their nourishment from one Of
of his mich cows, which submits to
the operation as quietly as though she
was giving sustenance to her own calf.
The young milk-stealers stand upon
their hind legs while absorbing the
tactical fluid, and it is needless To say
are thriving and growing fat ON it.
Thursday night Comptroller Pick
ard staid ut the residence OF Mr.. Hamp
Parkes, Oh the Hillsboro pike. When
he awoke Friday morning he reached
over for his pants, but could not find
them. BY the aid o. lighted lamp
he discovered that his coat, vest and
pants, 81 80, 6ne gold watch aud a
diamond pin had been stolen during
the night. The front door, which
WAS locked before the family retired
to rest, was found unlocked, and the
key Oh the inside.-Nashville Amer
lean.
GAINESVILLE Democrat So far as
we are concerned, we are decidedly in
favor of working our cCnvicts Lazi
ness placed most Of them where they
are, and the best way to reform them
and to make good citizens of them
hereafter is to give them plenty Of
good, hard, wholesome work to do.
Nor are we at all satisfied that the
state at present could provide them
with this work. Whatever may be
said against the lease system, we are
not by any means convinced that that
system is not, for the time at least,
best both for the state and the con.
victs.
Carthage Record: That citizen il
very lacking in information who be-
lieves that the prohibition movement
is to force people into measures. Ev
erybody WAC is half informed knows
that it is the prohibitionists that hav,
said all the time, LET the peopl
have right to vote on the question.
On the other hand the whskyite
have attempted to prevent the peopb
from having the opportunities to ex
press their will at the ballot.box. II
liquor men are the ones who would
by any means in their power, hav
tied the people hand and foot, an,
prevented them from having a voic
+ in the matter.
The Book Committee of the M. F
+ Church, South, by its action about tn
succesSorship in Publishing Agent de
J cided to await the return of bishoE
who are to be here the 18th of Jul
! to confirm lhe revision of the hymn
+ book before electing successor to tn
late DR.. j. B. McFerrin. Near
while Mr.. l.. d. Palmer will act
J the capacity, having all the authorit
of the agent. A most extraordinar
= report has been made by the busine
manager for the fiscal year just close,
There has been an increase of all II
church publications, the aggregate CT
, culation of Sunday-schoOl periodical
being above 100000 copies. II
Southern Methodist Review hi
reached the unprecedented circulate
for a publication of its Kind of LII
copies. Less than year ago it W
brought from Macon, Ca, and
discontinuance was seriously consi
4 cred. The Christian Advocate ST
grows in circulation and now reach
28,S00. There are no current deb
and only about $4,000 of the $3.50
900 Indebtedness of nine years a